Los Camperos

Mariachi Los Camperos celebrated its 2009 Grammy Award with a concert at El Pescador Restaurant.

Fillmore’s own Natividad “Nati” Cano and his band, Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano celebrate their 2008 Grammy win at El Pescador on Wednesday, February 25th. Los Camperos de Nati Cano won a Grammy Award February 8th, 2009 in the Best Regional Mexican Album category for Amor, Dolor y Lágrimas: Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano. This is the first Grammy Award for Los Camperos de Nati Cano (though Nati Cano performed on Linda Ronstadt’s grammy-winning recordings Canciones de Mi Padre and Mas Canciones).

The music world’s highest honor was presented for the first time to a Mariachi group and not to just one, but two very different kinds of Mariachi groups, Los Camperos and the Mariachi Divas, who tied in the same category for Best Mexican Regional Music.

This category has typically gone to a solo musician, but this year it went to Los Camperos and the all female Mariachi ensemble, the Mariachi Divas, who blend the use of many instruments into Mariachi music. This is considered historic and a tremendous break-through as Mariachi musicians in the past have not received the recognition they deserve, nor understanding of the complexity and discipline of the music.

Los Camperos has also performed at the White House for President Clinton, and at the Latino Inaugural Gala in Washington, D.C., as part of President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration celebration.